BREAKING: APC leads PDP by Over 5,000 votes halfway to results announcement

The electoral commission, INEC, has announced the results of nine of the 18 local governments in Edo State.

The results show that the ruling All Progressives Congress won in 5 local governments while the Peoples Democratic Party won in 4 local governments.
The APC so far has 142,424 votes while the PDP has 136,808 votes.
The ruling party candidate, Godwin Obaseki, thus leads his main challenger, Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the PDP by 5,616 votes.

Read more details of the officially announced results
LGA: Owan West

Number of registered voters: 54,406
Number of accredited voters: 24,487
APC: 12,862
PDP: 10,132
Total votes cast: 23,290
Rejected votes: 1,002

LGA: Egor

Number of registered voters: 184,296
Number of accredited voters: 49,802
APC: 26,177
PDP: 19,514
Total valid votes cast: 46,728
Rejected votes: 2,811
One polling unit cancelled because of failure to use the card reader.

LGA: Esan North East

Number of registered voters: 74,293
Number of accredited voters: 27,121
APC: 9,130
PDP: 16,220
Total valid votes: 25,747
Rejected votes: 1,197
Three cancellations due to number of votes cast exceeding number of accredited voters.

 LGA: Igueben

Number of registered voters: 42,655
Number of accredited voters: 16,482
APC: 7,802
PDP: 7,560
Total valid votes: 15,506
Rejected votes: 580
Two polling units cancelled.

LGA: Uhunmwode

Number of registered voters: 62,987
Number of accredited voters: 21,927
APC: 10,911
PDP: 8,667
Total valid votes: 19,971
Rejected votes: 1,759
There was cancellation of results in three polling units due to violence and discrepancy between the number of accredited voters and total votes cast.

LGA: Esan South East

Number of registered voters: 66,695
Number of accredited voters: 22,522
APC: 9,554
PDP: 11,466
Total valid votes: 21,250
Rejected votes: 806

LGA: Oredo

Number of registered voters: 273,614
Number of accredited voters: 74,076
APC: 37,612
PDP: 30,492
Total valid votes: 69,401
Rejected votes: 4,311

LGA: Orhionmwon

Number of registered voters: 102,921
Number of accredited voters: 34,270
APC: 15,262
PDP: 16,446
Total valid votes: 32,213
Rejected votes: 1,788

LGA: Esan West

Number of registered voters: 87,867
Number of accredited voters: 31,866
APC: 13,114
PDP: 16,311
Total valid votes: 29,963
Rejected votes: 1,563

Nine local government results have been announced so far. APC wins 5, PDP wins 4.